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To: "A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven" <fonz@skysmurf.nl>, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is there an easy way to find out which port loads which library?
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:56:26 -0600, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote:

> Most shells won't allow an argument list that long.
> % find /usr/ports -depth 3 -name pkg-plist -exec grep libfoobar.so \{} \;
> has been shown to be faster than hacking around arg list limits with  
> echo |
> xargs.

The following may prove to be even faster as it fills the shell argument  
list as full as possible for each execution of grep.

% find /usr/ports -depth 3 -name pkg-plist -exec grep libfoobar.so \{} +

(notice the + at the end)

It's something I picked up from here: http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html